Chicken Stock

Name: Chicken Stock
Ingredients: 3 bay leaves; 1 small bunch fresh parsley; 1 large carrot, scrubbed and chopped; 3 cloves garlic, not peeled; 2 tablespoons coriander seeds; 3 or 4 pieces of mace; 1 small bunch fresh thyme; 1 tablespoon black peppercorns; 1 whole stewing chicken; ½ bunch celery, cut into thirds; 2 leeks, rinsed and coarsely chopped; 2 onions, not peeled, halved, with 4 whole cloves stuck in them; 2 onions, not peeled, halved, with 4 whole cloves stuck in them; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Made Christmas

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2018

About

Replace the chicken (or the chicken carcass) with the carcass from a pheasant or partridge, for a fowl stock.

Ingredients

1 whole stewing chicken
2 onions, not peeled, halved, with 4 whole cloves stuck in them
½ bunch

Stock
Gluten-free

Method

Place everything except the sea salt and the ground pepper in a large pot. Pour in 5 to 6 quarts (5 to 6 L) cold water and bring to a boil. Lower the heat. Allow the broth to reduce by half over low heat for 3 hours and carefully skim off the foam from the surface with a skimmer. If you don’t do this, your broth will become cloudy. Let the broth simmer for another 3 hours over very low heat, un